A FIGHT at a Bromborough pub resulted in a 24-year-old Wirral man being jailed for five years yesterday for a vicious stabbing.

Jailing Brian Elliott yesterday the judge, Mr Justice McCombe, told him: "You got yourself embroiled in a most foul offence of violence. Fuelled by alcohol you joined a fight.

"It ended up with you inflicting some four stab wounds to another young man in a manner all too familiar in these courts."

Elliott, of Rochester Road, Rock Ferry, had initially faced a charge of attempting to murder Pieter Bebbington, which he denied, and this was dropped after he admitted a lesser charge of wounding him with intent.

Gerald Baxter, prosecuting, told Liverpool Crown Court that, on the evening of August 7 last year, Mr Bebbington was with friends in the Argylle and Sutherland public house in Bromborough.

He was introduced to Elliott and later, after closing time, a fracas broke out during which Elliott stabbed Mr Bebbington, as a result of which he was in hospital for a week.

Robert Altham, defending, said that Elliott, who has numerous previous convictions, including violence, has drink problems which he realises he has to resolve.